Tala Madani Screening at Frieze Los Angeles

15. 02. 2019

15.02.2019
17.02.2019

Paramount Theatre
5555 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Frieze Los Angeles Screening

In her deadpan paintings and animated videos, Tala Madani creates absurd scenes of fictive ritual usually centered around groups of men creating a grotesquerie populated by dichotomies. Figures simultaneously innocent and nefarious, furtive and self-aware, or comical and violent float through a hazy pastel palette that seems to shine light through the vulgar comforts of bonding. Obliquely referencing Madani’s Iranian-American nationality, her work skirts formal and political lines to expose the slithery nature of creating an image.

At Frieze Los Angeles, Madani will show The Audience, 2018, a compilation of seven short animations.